Why choose SD-WAN

The modern workforce is increasingly mobile, and business-critical applications are running over the Internet across multiple clouds. Traditional WAN architectures can’t keep up, because of lack of available bandwidth, limited security, and increased complexity, which prevents IT from responding to business needs faster.

Maximum choice and control

How the Cisco SD-WAN architecture works

Cisco SD-WAN is a cloud-first architecture that separates data and control planes, managed through the Cisco vManage console. You can quickly establish an SD-WAN overlay fabric to connect data centers, branches, campuses, and colocation facilities to improve network speed, security, and efficiency.​

Security

Increase flexibility with SD-WAN subscriptions

Choose from three tiers: Cisco DNA Essentials, Cisco DNA Advantage, and Cisco DNA Premier. Select a 3- or 5-year subscription with included software support. Get access to new innovations, investment protection, and license portability.

"Optimal Office 365 performance is achieved by enabling local Internet breakouts for key Office 365 scenarios, from users in the branch directly into Microsoft's global network. Modern SD-WAN solutions, like Cisco's SD-WAN, make it easier for customers to implement this setup, support multiple DIA links, and dynamically choose the best one, improving the Office 365 user experience."

"With Cisco's SD-WAN advanced security, we can instantly turn any customer's entire network into a fortified wall across any cloud environment. This is a significant step toward adopting an enterprise architecture with integrated security, software-defined WAN, and cloud services, all managed via a single policy controller."

Bill Thompson, Practice Manager, World Wide Technology

"Bringing the WAN edge securely to the Internet is now possible with the new security features of Cisco SD-WAN delivered as a single consolidated solution."

Hussein Omar, ​Network Solutions Architect, Datacom

"Customers want more secure connections, usually with multiple cloud environments, so CDW sees Cisco’s new integrated security features for SD-WAN as an important differentiator."

Will Kerr, Technical Architect, CDW

"With Cisco SD-WAN, my life as a network administrator is significantly easier. To deploy new configurations and policy changes across the entire network, what would have taken a very long time previously, touching many devices individually, now takes a matter of minutes."

Agilent's global rollout of Viptela SD-WAN enables our IT teams to respond rapidly to changing business requirements. We now achieve more than 80 percent improvement in turnaround times for new capability and a significant increase in application reliability and user experience.